Posted on 02/22/2024 4:20:50 PM PST by Red Badger
An unmanned, robotic lunar lander launched by a private U.S. company landed on the moon Thursday evening.
“We can confirm, without a doubt, that our equipment is on the surface of the moon,” said Stephen Altemus, CEO of Intuitive Machines, the Houston-based company that operated the Odysseus spacecraft. “Welcome to the moon.”
As it approached the surface of the moon, Odysseus lost contact with NASA, resulting in several anxious minutes for those who worked on the joint project. But after approximately 15 minutes of searching, officials confirmed that they were once again receiving signals from the spacecraft.
“A commercial lander named Odysseus, powered by a company called Intuitive Machines, launched up on a Space X rocket, carrying a bounty of NASA scientific instruments and bearing the dream of a new adventure, a new adventure in science, innovation and American leadership, well, all of that aced the landing of a lifetime,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said after contact had been reestablished. “Today for the first time in more than a half century, the U.S. has returned to the moon.”
Altemus had estimated that Odysseus had an 80% chance of successfully landing on the moon, citing previous failed attempts as an advantage. “We’ve stood on the shoulders of everybody who’s tried before us,” Altemus said.
It was the first American mission to land on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972 and the first private spacecraft ever to make a soft landing there.
While it was a private mission, NASA paid Intuitive Machines $118 million to deliver six instruments to the moon. And the U.S. space agency provided streaming video of the landing.
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NASA is superfluous, IMO. Cut their budget 90% and give it to real American innovators and entrepreneurs.
Uh, perhaps that the cold war was staged and they were dependent on our continuing to ship them advanced tech on the sly?
Yeah, you can thank the Democrat Party and its obsession with race-politics for that. They destroyed NASA.
At least you FINALLY admit that we got MEN to the Moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Congratulations!
“Wouldn’t it be great to make everyone think we’d landed on the moon.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw
What is your age, if you don’t mind?
I’m not sure deductive reasoning hasn’t been expunged from younger generations. It’s telling to me, there aren’t ANY scientists of note, aviation, aerospace who entertain the notion all that stuff was faked. Over 400,000 people supported all the contracting and subcontracting work.
Many of the smartest people on the planet were involved intimately virtually 24/7 for years at the cape and in Houston. Universities and captains of industry. Guys like Tom Kelly of Grumman on Long Island, NY. MIT, Collins Radio, North American, the list is endless.
NASA poached several of the best of the top 50 or so experimental test pilots from the various branches of the US military. Many were combat veterans, with college degrees. Very, very patriotic individuals.
I can just hear the briefings. “Yeah, we’re just going to fake the whole thing, about 10 times. Who is with us?”
Sure, Jan
So a private US company succeeded where the Russian govt failed.
In working condition or in tiny pieces?
I’d work on your critical thinking, if I were you.
Nobody doubts but that many scientists were toiling away for years—until the deadline for the moonshot goal was looming and then they were about as close as the jabs were two years ago to being “safe and effective”.
Go study up on government propaganda, I suggest.
It was the bill coming due for LNJ's "War on Poverty" program of government gibmees that ultimately killed Apollo
We should have had a moon base by now with hundreds of people.................
Some born there.
That's too simple and straightforward.
Should read "Lacking of oppressive gender imposed companionship"
I was just out looking at the near full moon, and said out loud, “Damn good shot”
There is a whole book written to answer your question:
https://www.amazon.com/One-Small-Step-Great-Dominate/dp/1905570120
When I was a kid I fully expected to be able to visit nice hotels on the Moon and Mars for vacations by this time....
Me too.................
There is a whole literature written by Old Timers who differ with your view.
If I had to pick one as the “best” it would be this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Moon-Whistle-Blowers-Mary-Bennett/dp/0932813909
As for scientists and engineers this webpage has them stacked like cordwood:
https://www.aulis.com/investigation.htm
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